After a 143 year history, the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union will merge with the Frances Willard Historical Association under a new name The Center For Women’s History and Leadership. Here is the link to the article. Evanston Roundtable, Sept 20, 2017 . Tomorrow there is a “Do Everything” Birthday celebration at the Frances Willard Rest Cottage and associated buildings. See also the WCTU webpage WCTU – Center for Women’s History and Leadership.

Read the article from The Times of Ottawa, IL, here . From the article is the following paragraph:

A dinner theater fundraiser is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, at the Norway Community Building, 3676 E. 2603rd Road, in support of the restoration needs of the Norsk Museum. Rob Borchsenius has written the original script and music.

The Norsk Museum has in its collection the entire Norway Temperance Association meeting minutes and Borchsenius’ idea for this play is inspired by these minutes.

After broasted chicken and pasta is served, the audience will participate in a circa 1910 meeting of the Temperance Association and join in various temperance songs.

Only 150 tickets will be sold, advance sales only at $35. For advance tickets, call Borchsenius at 815 -(edited out, see article) or go to norskmuseum.org. Doors will open at 6 p.m.

(New Book) English translations of 1930’s Austrian Socialist workers militias leader Julius Deutsch and the AustroMarxist Experiment; translated by Gabriel Kuhn, an Austrian writer living in Sweden who also authored “Sober Living for the Revolution” and “All Power to the Councils”. All three published by PM Press, Oakland, CA.

Teetotalers may be proportionately more numerous in Britain today than during the heyday of the Victorian temperance movement, with a quarter of young adults under 25 now being total abstainers as well as 32% of all adults in London (which has a large Muslim population). In the United Kingdom as a whole, 21% of adults now are total abstainers. By way of comparison, slightly more than a third of adult Americans report that they do not drink.